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Adulthood Is a Myth: A Sarah's Scribbles Collection Kindle & comiXology

by Sarah Andersen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.7 6,104 ratings

Part of: Sarah's Scribbles

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These casually drawn, perfectly on-point comics by the hugely popular young artist Sarah Andersen are for the rest of us. They document the wasting of entire beautiful weekends on the internet, the unbearable agony of holding hands on the street with a gorgeous guy, and dreaming all day of getting home and back into pajamas. In other words, the horrors and awkwardnesses of young modern life. Oh and they are totally not autobiographical. At all.

Adulthood Is a Myth presents many fan favorites plus dozens of all-new comics exclusive to this book. Sarah's frankness on personal issues like body image, self-consciousness, introversion, relationships, and the frequency of bra-washing makes her comics highly relatable and deeply hilarious, showcasing how she became one of the most influential voices in web cartoonists.

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Sarah Andersen is a cartoonist and illustrator from New England. She is the author of the award-winning series Sarah’s Scribbles, which has earned her three consecutive Goodreads Choice Awards. Her semi-autobiographical comics chronicle the continual struggles of waking up in the morning, being productive, dealing with social awkwardness, technology, and her beloved pets. Together with author Andy Weir, she also illustrated the graphic novel Cheshire Crossing, a mashup of Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, and Alice in Wonderland. Her gothic romance, Fangs, began running online in 2020 as a serial comic strip on Tapas and will be published in September 2020 in hardcover form. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014 and currently lives in Montreal, Canada.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0170ZKBCY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Andrews McMeel Publishing (March 8, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 8, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 87970 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 112 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #284,229 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #126 in Comic Strips (Kindle Store)
- #135 in Cartoons
- #749 in Love, Sex & Marriage Humor

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Sarah Andersen is a young cartoonist and illustrator. She graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2014 and currently lives in Brooklyn. Her comics are semi-autobiographical and follow the adventures of herself, her friends, and her beloved pets.

Both her illustration and cartooning work has been recognized by the Society of Illustrators, and her first book, "Adulthood is a Myth" is out now.

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Adorable

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024

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This was hilarious and relatable and adorable. I saw a friend on Instagram had read this, and put it on my radar. The Library had a copy, so I got to read it! Excellent fun!

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2024

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I relate to so many of these comics and loved every moment. I found myself in this book and I will be reading this one again.

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A laugh-out-loud collection!

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2024

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“I don’t want to get up. I get up, I have to see people and DO things.” Nooooo! Too funny….and true!

These are sketchy comics about life and adulthood. A lot of them are so true and some of them are just plain funny.

The doubtfulness of eternal love…literally. The synching of periods. I hate slow workers, too! How graduating feels—like being shoved out of an airplane and you’re not sure if the parachute even works.

A laugh-out-loud collection!

Reviewed in the United States on March 26, 2024

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was really cute and nice 🙂 love their style of drawing and love all the cats too, cause they're the best.

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Jill Nicely

the beginning of the scribbles

Reviewed in the United States on June 22, 2023

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Sarah Andersen expresses herself through her art, which she calls scribbles. But that’s not all she does. She expressed all of us through her art. She writes about relationships and the struggles of being an introvert and her love for the smell of books. She is insecure and makes blanket forts for reading in and just wants to say home in her pajamas, and she is all of us. Or anyway, she is me.

Through her cartoons, Andersen is honest about her feelings about herself, about school, about her boyfriend, and about snacks. She is willing to talk about her embarrassments and her life choices and how she is worried about her future. She also spends a lot of time thinking of herself as an old woman, looking back over her life and guessing at what she’d say about them when she’s in her 80s.

She talks about the real things that come with being an adult—paying bills and setting alarms to wake up early and dealing with tampons and having to go to work. To her, graduation feels like jumping out of a plane with an unreliable parachute. Running into someone from high school is a trap. Being friends with other artists is both a blessing, as they can help make your work better, and a curse, as you want them to break their fingers so they can’t create better art than you.

Adulting is complicated, and maybe not even all that real, but it does feel endless some of the time. More laundry, more bills, more paperwork, more people. Sometimes you just need a break from adulting, and that’s the perfect time to reach for a Sarah’s Scribbles book and hide in your book fort for a while.

I loved Adulthood Is a Myth. Today was a challenging day, in a challenging week, during a challenging season at work, and I just needed a break tonight. I needed to feel like I was seen and celebrated for being human and tired and vulnerable and messy. I thought I’d be able to turn to Sarah’s Scribbles to get the understanding I wanted, and she did not disappoint. This book was a much-needed break for me, a calorie-free dessert at the end of a long tasteless meal. The more I read of Sarah’s Scribbles, the more I like her, and the more I want to keep reading.

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Rebecca H. Augustine

Wit and Wisdom in Comic Book Form

Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2024

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Sarah Andersen nails growing up and "adulting" right on the head! I just wish there was a way that I could have made notations in this little gem of a funny book!

Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2024

I feel seen. ❤

Hilarious book, perfect for anyone refusing to accept that adulthood is a thing :D

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2016

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Sarah Anderson's book "Adulthood is a Myth" is AMAZING. So many of the strips resonate with the young adult audience who constantly find themselves in familiar situations, thus resulting in tears of laughter, and shouts of "OMG--THIS IS SO ME!" The drawing are perfectly and hilariously executed to depict everyday situations, annoyances, and embarrassments are hilariously sketched scenes. Although many of the comics in this book can be found individually on the web, there were still plenty of new, unseen ones as well. The only bad thing about this book is that it wasn't long enough-- I wanted to keep reading and laughing and crying tears of laughter for forever! Great book, and a perfect gift for anyone who can relate to the day to day life of young adults.

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Michelle

Awesome

Reviewed in Canada on September 12, 2023

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I've seen her stuff for years as memes and being reposted elsewhere. I was very excited to find her actual books on Amazon. This one is the first one I've read and it's wonderful. I shall be buying the others.

Bruna

Adorei

Reviewed in Brazil on December 15, 2021

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Eu acompanho os quadrinhos da Sarah Andersen há anos, não sabia que havia o livro em inglês para comprar no Brasil. A parte vermelha da capa é peludinha e oi papel e a encadernação de boa qualidade.

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Super funny book

Reviewed in Spain on January 4, 2023

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Super funny book most adult women can relate to.

Luca Rinaldo

I love Sarah Andersen

Reviewed in Italy on August 17, 2021

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Nothing more to say. If you loved Sarah Andersen's works online, you'll love this first collection of them. Her early artstyle is slightly different from the one she use now, it's nice to see that evolution.

Per gli utenti italiani: ho comprato consapevolmente il libro in edizione originale inglese perchè la preferisco a quella italiana, anche se le differenze tra le due non sono molte. Specifico tuttavia che l'edizione italiana Beccogiallo ha usato 3 misure leggermente differenti per le 3 raccolte di strisce (questa è la prima), mentre l'edizione inglese ha mantenuto la stessa, per cui solo in quest'ultima i libri sono alti uguali.

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Karinaliz

Super bonito y divertido

Reviewed in Mexico on December 22, 2019

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Está súper divertido, te identificas con las imágenes y te la pasas riendo. Excelente para un rato de oscio, lo terminas en un ratito pero vale la pena. La portada es una pasada las letras y el suéter de la niña son de fieltro (texturizados) un detalle muy kuky.

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